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It Is A New Dawn! - Art Update
3 years ago
Hello, everyone. I'm happy to tell you that there should be a lot of art coming your way soon.
For a long time, I've been having trouble doing art - well, for a variety of reasons. However, the one big one that loomed over it all, adding to the difficulty with negative medical announcements, difficult times, high stress, and the like, is that my eyes are going the way everyone's eyes go as they get older. Not only have I started to need glasses, but I need driving glasses, reading glasses, and even with the reading glasses, my eyes would still start to hurt a great deal after I'd been sitting at the drawing table for a little while.
Obviously, this made it hard to pursue my passion, and for a time, I thought that I was doomed to have to give up what I loved so much. But then a week or so ago I got digital tablet, the sort you can draw directly on. I could not believe the difference. At first I was scared to try it, scared to find it wouldn't help, scared something would go wrong - and then it was wonderful. As I gave it a try and started practicing with the new tool, I drew all day and all night long. Every hour of the day, I was bent over this new tablet drawing like it was nothing. Piece after piece flowed from my stylus, and without my eyes hurting in the process.
I apologize for keeping this condition a secret for so long. It took a while to put together the money for the glasses and everything else to work to solve this. I guess I didn't say anything because admittedly, I am a prideful, stubborn guy who didn't want to be pitied. Or to be seen as helpless, or a charity case. I certainly didn't want people to give up on me if they learned of the eye issues thinking 'welp, that's it from him'. I am sure much of that is my own negative imagination, but it was enough to keep this one medical issue a secret more than the others.
Anyway, I have several sketches from the tablet that I'll be uploading over the next several days, as it was the drawing part that I practiced so much (already know how to ink and color digitally). I won't give up on the old fashioned pencil and paper completely, as I find it special, just probably will save that for physical sketchbooks only, and for stuff that don't require me to draw anything too small, and take it easy so the eyes won't rebel too much.
Once again, that you for your patience and support is these past hard times, things are really starting to look up for me, not only in this, but in other medical and family areas as well, the worst is now all behind me.
Thank you,
-- BBB
For a long time, I've been having trouble doing art - well, for a variety of reasons. However, the one big one that loomed over it all, adding to the difficulty with negative medical announcements, difficult times, high stress, and the like, is that my eyes are going the way everyone's eyes go as they get older. Not only have I started to need glasses, but I need driving glasses, reading glasses, and even with the reading glasses, my eyes would still start to hurt a great deal after I'd been sitting at the drawing table for a little while.
Obviously, this made it hard to pursue my passion, and for a time, I thought that I was doomed to have to give up what I loved so much. But then a week or so ago I got digital tablet, the sort you can draw directly on. I could not believe the difference. At first I was scared to try it, scared to find it wouldn't help, scared something would go wrong - and then it was wonderful. As I gave it a try and started practicing with the new tool, I drew all day and all night long. Every hour of the day, I was bent over this new tablet drawing like it was nothing. Piece after piece flowed from my stylus, and without my eyes hurting in the process.
I apologize for keeping this condition a secret for so long. It took a while to put together the money for the glasses and everything else to work to solve this. I guess I didn't say anything because admittedly, I am a prideful, stubborn guy who didn't want to be pitied. Or to be seen as helpless, or a charity case. I certainly didn't want people to give up on me if they learned of the eye issues thinking 'welp, that's it from him'. I am sure much of that is my own negative imagination, but it was enough to keep this one medical issue a secret more than the others.
Anyway, I have several sketches from the tablet that I'll be uploading over the next several days, as it was the drawing part that I practiced so much (already know how to ink and color digitally). I won't give up on the old fashioned pencil and paper completely, as I find it special, just probably will save that for physical sketchbooks only, and for stuff that don't require me to draw anything too small, and take it easy so the eyes won't rebel too much.
Once again, that you for your patience and support is these past hard times, things are really starting to look up for me, not only in this, but in other medical and family areas as well, the worst is now all behind me.
Thank you,
-- BBB
cant wait to see what you do, old friend. :D
Back in October I had to give up driving because my eyes had gotten so bad because of cataracts I couldn't see anything more than 4 feet from my face without it being blurry. At the end of December I went in for emergency cataract surgery so now everything less than 3 feet away is blurry but I can see a bug crawling on the wall 20 feet away. It's been a struggle to have to use reading glasses while I'm drawing and my eyes likewise get tired when I do so.
It's taken a while for me to adjust and I'm sure it'll be the same for you to get used to the new normal.
Take care
That's awesome!
Also, hey, it'll be a matter of time before I'll need bifocals myself. Like, years in single digits, lol, so I feel your pain!
(also, reading tiny print in the dark is just impossible these days!)